# Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization

**Company:** TransUnion
**Location:** Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
**Title:** Consultant, FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization
**Employment Type:** Not specified
**Work Arrangement:** Hybrid, with at least two days per week in the assigned TU office

## About the Role

This role sits within TransUnion’s GTDA FinOps Strategy, Governance & Value Realization team, which works across technology, business, and finance to improve cloud and infrastructure cost transparency, capacity planning, and optimization accountability. The team focuses on trusted reporting, governance standards, and decision-ready insights that support more effective management of cloud and infrastructure spend.

As a Consultant on the Enterprise Cloud Economics / FinOps team, you will turn cost, usage, and capacity data into dashboards, analysis, and reporting that support executive decision-making. You will work closely with Technology Strategy & Governance, Cloud Engineering, Finance, Product Engineering, Platform Engineering, and other business stakeholders to strengthen FinOps governance, track optimization, and improve value realization.

The role is suited to someone who is analytically strong, comfortable working across technical and financial domains, and able to bring structure to a complex enterprise environment. The objective is to improve spend visibility, accountability, and planning discipline across cloud, AI, and infrastructure investments.

## Key Responsibilities

– Build and maintain dashboards covering cloud, AI, and infrastructure costs for leadership, engineering, finance, and business stakeholders.
– Analyze cloud spend, infrastructure usage, capacity trends, cost variances, and optimization opportunities.
– Translate technical cost and capacity data into business and financial insights for executive reporting.
– Prepare monthly reporting inputs, executive scorecards, and governance materials for cloud and AI economics.
– Develop capacity utilization reporting across storage, server, VMware, database, network, middleware, and related infrastructure areas.
– Consolidate demand signals from engineering and business teams into forward-looking capacity views.
– Support performance and capacity analysis with application and platform owners, including right-sizing, configuration, query/index optimization, and infrastructure improvements.
– Track commitments, reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, GPU utilization, and other consumption-based economics.
– Manage the optimization pipeline from intake through prioritization, implementation, and Finance-validated value realization.
– Identify ownership gaps and help route accountability to the appropriate engineering, product, platform, or business teams.
– Support the FinOps governance calendar and align operational changes with finance close, forecasting, budgeting, and planning cycles.
– Partner across technology, business, and finance teams to improve transparency, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

## Required Skills

– Experience in cloud financial management, capacity planning, IT finance, infrastructure reporting, or a related analytical field.
– Working understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including server, storage, network, VMware, database, middleware, and common operating systems.
– Solid knowledge of infrastructure and business capacity planning, with reporting and performance analysis experience.
– Working knowledge of public cloud platforms, specifically GCP and/or AWS.
– Understanding of cloud cost fundamentals, including committed-use discounts, savings plans, tagging, and resource lifecycle.
– Proficiency in Google BigQuery for querying and analyzing cloud cost and usage data.
– Strong analytical skills and proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
– Experience building capacity utilization reports across storage, server, VMware, database, and network environments.
– Ability to manage current usage statistics and forecast growth from business demand signals.
– Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex infrastructure and cost data clearly.
– Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and competing deadlines.
– Self-starter who can work independently and collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams.
– Ability to present ideas, make recommendations, and build team consensus.

## Preferred Skills

– Familiarity with FinOps principles and frameworks; FinOps Foundation certification (FOCP or equivalent) is a plus.
– Scripting or automation experience with VBA, PowerShell, or SQL.
– Experience with Splunk or similar observability/analytics platforms for infrastructure performance analysis.
– Experience integrating cloud economics data into forecasting, budgeting, or chargeback/showback workflows.
– Background supporting a federated or matrixed technology organization.
– Familiarity with JIRA or ServiceNow/Remedy.
– Experience with AI/ML or GPU infrastructure cost reporting and governance.
– Experience with cloud cost tooling such as Harness CCM.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– GCP
– AWS

### FinOps / Cloud Economics
– Committed-use discounts
– Savings plans
– Tagging
– Resource lifecycle
– Harness CCM

### Data & Analytics
– Google BigQuery
– Splunk

### Programming / Automation
– SQL
– VBA
– PowerShell

### Reporting & Productivity Tools
– Microsoft Excel
– Microsoft PowerPoint

### IT Infrastructure Domains
– Server
– Storage
– Network
– VMware
– Database
– Middleware
– Common operating systems

### Workflow / Ticketing
– JIRA
– ServiceNow
– Remedy

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Build reporting and dashboards to improve cloud, AI, and infrastructure cost visibility.
– Track and analyze spend, usage, capacity, cost variance, and optimization opportunities.
– Support governance around cost transparency, accountability, and optimization tracking.
– Monitor commitments, reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, and GPU utilization.
– Manage the optimization pipeline from identification through implementation and value realization.
– Support forecasting, budgeting, planning, and finance close alignment.
– Develop capacity planning and utilization reporting to inform future demand.
– Improve ownership alignment for spend accountability across teams.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This opportunity offers exposure to a high-visibility FinOps function operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and business strategy. The role involves meaningful work in cloud, AI, and infrastructure economics, with direct impact on reporting, governance, and decision-making. It also provides the chance to collaborate across multiple teams in a large enterprise environment. For candidates who enjoy analytical work, cross-functional influence, and turning data into actionable insight, this is a strong fit.

## Useful Links

– Job Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4483027612
– Application Link: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4483027612